Artefacts - their source

I found Oracle tools for Webcenter Sites bundled within Oracle Middleware Fusion Media Pack. This media pack also has separate compressed files for other Oracle tools like ADF, JDK, JRE, SOA Suite, Sites, etc, etc. At times, each suite has multiple compressed files each for a different sub module.

Together these can be together from Oracle e-devlivery Portal (https://edelivery.oracle.com). This is a password protected portal and successful login requires an account with Oracle - just another routine form filling to get access. I did not mind this registration as during the journey oracle provided option to sign up for (hopefully) some great e-journals.

As of June 01, 2012 I found following Webcenter Sites files on Oracle e-delivery portal. It would not be ethical for me to provide download links to these archives from a public shared site, hence please do the needful as recommended by Oracle Corp.

Do the standard (my preference) - create a desktop shortcut, fire eclipse to make sure installation was proper, check jdk and jre mappings within eclipse are correct, bump up default heap size and make heap visible in eclipse taskbar, etc.

Unzip eclipse plugin for CSDT (Content Server Developer Tools) from csdt.zip - Oracle documentation mentions version 1.0.0 but that's incorrect. Downloaded archives come with v1.2 of CSDT eclipse plugin - this is right version for Oracle Webcenter Sites 11gr1. With v1.0.0 of csdt plugin, I was still getting "Fatwire Content Server" perspective instead of "Oracle Webcenter Sites" perspective as mentioned in same Oracle Documentation.

Configure Developer Tools (Integrate Sites instance with Eclipse IDE)

Once installation is done, fire up eclipse and switch to workbench view. Perform following steps in eclipse IDE, listed on page 18 of developer tools document

Hit "Windows" - "Open Perspective" - "Other".

Select "Oracle Webcenter Sites" and hit "ok".

Popup window appears requesting more details.

Configure Sites Installation Directory - This refers to the Content Server directory that has "futuretense.ini" file. An example of how the path could look like is "D:\Oracle\WebCenter\Sites\11gR1\ContentServer\11.1.1.6.0".

Default Username - "fwadmin"

Default password - "xceladmin"

Project name - This refers to the eclipse project. So a valid project name should do.

Log location will be automatically selected as a result of populating this information.

Oracle Webcenter Sites (Eclipse Perspective)

Once CSDT plugin is configured within Oracle Webcenter Sites (Eclipse) perspective, this allows access to 2 groups of tools